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Cuba is the next domino after Maduro’s fall - opinion

Cuba survives on foreign power; its fate may now be in US hands.

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted, as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan. in New York City, US, January 5, 2026.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a documents signing ceremony in Moscow, Russia January 17, 2025.

Moscow and Tehran’s new partnership is bad news for the West - opinion

A man walks past a mural showing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, after US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the US has struck Venezuela and captured Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela January 3, 2026

President Trump’s Venezuela strategy signals a new era for US foreign policy - opinion

Iranians protest on a main street in Tehran, December 30, 2025

Iran’s regime is facing collapse as its core ideological lie is finally exposed - opinion


Iran asks for Saudi help in reviving nuclear talks with Trump in letter to MBS

Saudi Arabia's growing political weight and deepening security ties with Washington endow Riyadh with leverage few others in the Middle East possess.

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman hold hands during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, November 18, 2025.

Total value of deals between Saudi Arabia, US reaches $557 billion, state TV says

The value of deals between Saudi Arabia and the US has reached $557 billion.

 SAUDI CROWN Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman at the Al Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2025.

Herut Canada charity status revoked amid rising challenges to Jewish NGOs

Herut Canada’s charity status was revoked after an audit was triggered, making it the third Jewish Canadian organization to lose its charity status in two years.

 National Flag of Canada (Queen's Park, Toronto).

Swiss didn't make a deal with the devil on US tariffs, minister says

Switzerland defends new US tariff deal as ministers reject claims it surrenders to Trump’s trade demands.

Swiss federal councillor Guy Parmelin, head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) looks on during South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit in Bern, in the House of Parliament (Bundeshaus), Switzerland, October 29, 2025.

Dutch police arrest pro-Palestine protesters at World War II anniversary event

During a speech by Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Dutch media reported a protester threw a smoke bomb onto the stage, where visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was also present.

 Security personnel detain a Pro-Palestinian protester, on the day of a liberation parade, where they commemorate the victims of war and celebrate freedom, in Wageningen, Netherlands, May 5, 2025

'A proper slap down': Russian, world leaders respond to Trump, Zelensky’s tense exchange

France's Macron, after Trump-Zelensky clash, says "we must respect those who have been fighting since the beginning"

 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington, D.C.

United Airlines to resume Israel flights in March

On October 7, 2023, the company suspended its activity in Israel, renewing it in March 2024 with just seven weekly flights to New York.

 A United Airlines aircraft.

Bomb kills at least one person at luxury Moscow apartment building

The blast is attributed to an alleged assassination attempt of a a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine.

 Blast at Moscow residential building

Four Dagestan airport pogrom rioters sentenced to 10 years in prison

Russian investigators said that on October 29, 2023, Ilya Ponomarev, Abakar Abakarov, and Israel Akhmednabiyev incited hatred and violence against Israelis

 Rioters at the Dagestan airport

Meet the pro-Russia, anti-Israel populist that wants to remake German politics

Will Wagenknecht succeed in remaking Germany’s political landscape?

 Germany's BSW party holds a party congress in Bonn